This is very nearly how it went down with my father. A slow loss of hearing that was only noticed in hindsight. Then the seizure, which in his case was small, localized, and motor. Then a massive stroke that took most of his words for six months.
He was a trial subject for the combined radiation/chemotherapy protocol that is standard now. When he was projected to have only two months, he ended up with a year and a half to get his affairs in order and say goodbye. That glioblastoma multiforme that is mentioned in that Daily Kos link... that one does not mess around. It was like Alzheimer's in fast forward.
There's really no predicting this one, but a friend of my father who had the same pattern of hearing loss badgered his doctor into an MRI and actually survived his brain tumor. I think that's luck more than anything else.
I share a birthday with:
Marguerite of Navarre
Oleg Cassini
Anton LaVey
Tricia Helfer
Also, though we've drifted from the subject, I have another countdown song. I'm curious if anyone else knows it.
Ten little chickadees sitting on a vine
One flew away and then there were nine
Chorus:
Chickadee, chickadee
Happy and gay
Chickadee, chickadee
Fly away
The rhymes for the rest of the verses as I know them are gate, heaven, stick, hive, door, tree, shoe. The final two verses are different: "Two little chickadees, my song is almost done," followed by "One little chickadee sitting all alone."
Does anyone else know these? My mother is a native Floridian with French-Canadian ancestry, just for reference.
I went to Hannity's site for the video, and I feel dirty just looking at it for some reason. A couple of things caught my eye. First of all, the website is cringeworthy. Terrible design and obnoxious graphics. Second of all, there's a conservative dating service just for Hannity fans? Really?
This has nothing to do with anything, but:
As much as I feel displaced in South Georgia, there are things I love about it. For example, one of my coworkers, discussing lactation during coitus, used the phrase "enjoying the marital fruits" in all seriousness. She is twenty five years old, just for reference.
I suppose I should be embarrassed that I doubled over laughing.
Fragano Ledgister @537
Oh dear. Well, living in Georgia, I have met a few of that type.
This Tom Riddle is clearly the God of Christian tradition
Wow, that's a whole bucket full of crazy right there, isn't it? And the bit about Potter furthering the Gay Agenda by showing his ankle? I really had to reach to remember what on earth the author was referring to there.
Also, I don't care too much for their god if they really think he resembles Voldemort. Why is it always such a nasty god that the nutballs have?
I will always have a soft spot in my heart for the English teacher that required that we learn the first 34 lines of the prologue to the Canterbury Tales in Middle English before we graduated.
It's always a fun party trick to pull those lines out. But I can't say that I go to many parties where I manage to work it into casual conversation.
And along the lines of the sad case in Boston, if you are a nursing mother, you need to be extra careful. I'm currently nursing a one month old in South Georgia and just walking from the door to the car is enough to make me symptomatic even though I'm constantly watching my fluid and electrolyte intake.
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